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Four Suns

Name: Four Suns
Director: Bohdan Sláma
Released: 2012
Duration: 105 min

Representation Score

3.8/10

Limited

2012

Director

Bohdan Sláma

Runtime

105 minutes

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Four Suns is a gritty character study rooted in Czech social realism. It prioritizes the complexities of human dysfunction over the reinforcement of idealized social hierarchies. While the film lacks demographic breadth, it succeeds in deconstructing traditional family structures. The narrative's strength lies in its refusal to present a sanitized view of domestic life. By focusing on the failures of the male protagonist, it provides a more complex look at gendered competence and provincial struggle. However, the film remains limited by its homogeneous setting. The lack of racial, ethnic, or LGBTQ+ diversity keeps the scope narrow, focusing strictly on a specific regional socio-economic reality.

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Category Breakdown

Does Four Suns have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film focuses on a traditional, fractured domestic unit. There is no visible representation of LGBTQ+ identities or narratives within the story.

How does Four Suns portray gender?

Fair

Jana provides a subversion of traditional hierarchies by managing the household's emotional labor. The narrative shifts focus away from the unstable, arrested-development male protagonist.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Four Suns?

Limited

Set in a small Czech town, the film depicts a homogeneous social environment. It lacks a multi-ethnic cast or characters that challenge regional demographic norms.

How does Four Suns represent religion and culture?

Good

The film offers a nuanced critique of provincial life and social stability. It avoids idealized family clichés by focusing on unemployment and generational cycles of error.

Does Four Suns include disability representation?

Minimal

The story explores psychological immaturity and interpersonal friction. However, there is no evidence of characters with physical or neurodivergent disabilities as central plot elements.

Present on Screen

Subverts traditional masculine clichés by depicting a male protagonist struggling with arrested development.
Provides a nuanced, non-aspirational view of family life through social realism.
Centers women's ability to drive the story through the emotional endurance and labor of the character Jana.

Limited or Absent

Lacks visible representation of LGBTQ+ identities or non-straight-centered narratives.
Features a homogeneous cast that does not reflect multi-ethnic or diverse racial demographics.
Does not include characters with visible or invisible disabilities to expand the social scope.

Official Synopsis

Fogi is enjoying his never ending puberty. But simultaneously Fogi is also trying to live up to his family duties and bring up Véna, his son from the first marriage. He did not get married again but lives with Jana, a post office employee. Together they have little Anicka and they all live in a flat in a small town. At first, Jana is trying to tolerate Fogi's moods, but her patience is running out. Fogi loses his job. On top of that he starts to see himself in his adolescent son and realizes with horror that Véna repeats his own mistakes. The first fights, bans and mutual misunderstandings are approaching.

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